Quotes of: Jazz-band Keyword

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Bobby McFerrin

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

Noah Gray-Cabey

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Aloe Blacc

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

Al Jarreau

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Ritchie Blackmore

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

Branford Marsalis

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Donovan Bailey

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Julie Andrews

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Henry Rollins

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Buddy Rich

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Boz Scaggs

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

Georgie Fame

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Herbie Hancock

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Deborah Moggach

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

Nicole Richie

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

Eddi Reader

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Wynton Marsalis

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

Billy Higgins

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

Dave Brubeck

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Etta James

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Jeff Healey